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Scientists have found that the nutritional properties — in particular the protein content — of plant pollen has reduced by a third (down from 18 per cent to 12 per cent) over the past 172 years. In the same period, carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere has increased from around 280 parts per million to close to 400 ppm, researchers said. These scientists, according to an article tweeted by science writer Bethany Brookshire, feel

GALAXIES ARE the fundamental building blocks of our visible universe, each containing billions of stars, like our Sun. They can broadly be classified into two types — elliptical and spiral. A typical spiral galaxy has two structural components: a central bulge in which stars move, more or less, on random orbits and a disk in which they move on approximately circular orbits like planets in our solar system.
Understanding the formation and the evolution of these galaxies over the age of the

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Sarah Jeong continues her excellent series of critical perspectives on technology with a piece on the way that technology is being used to let computers control their users, on behalf of the corporations who make and sell these tools. The expansion of ...and more »

Facebook News Feed may soon have a section devoted to news on its Android and iOS apps.
Social media website Facebook may soon add a news section to its Android and iOS smartphone apps that may look like Facebook Paper, a standalone mobile app created only for iOS.
Facebook confirmed to Mashable tech website that it is testing the new, sectioned news feed, in addition to the current format, though it is unclear if the feature would ever get an official launch.
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Researchers, led by an Indian-origin engineer in US, have developed a novel technology that can double Wi-Fi speeds with a single antenna, a breakthrough that could revolutionise the field of telecommunications.
This is the first time researchers from Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science have integrated a non-reciprocal circulator and a full-duplex radio on a nanoscale silicon chip.
The team, led by Associate Professor Harish Krishnaswamy, developed the technology that n

Yu Yureka Note, the first phablet from YU Televentures, has been announced at Rs 13,499. The Yu Yureka Note features a 6-inch full HD display. (Source: Yu Televentures)
Yu Yureka Note, the first phablet from YU Televentures, has been announced at Rs 13,499. The Yu Yureka Note features a 6-inch full HD display.
Yu Yureka Note promises to deliver great multimedia and gaming experience and is powered by MediaTek MT 6753T processor.
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Yu Yureka Note, the first phablet from YU Televentures, has been announced at Rs 13,499. The Yu Yureka Note features a 6-inch full HD display. (Source: Yu Televentures)
Yu Yureka Note, the first phablet from YU Televentures, has been announced at Rs 13,499. The Yu Yureka Note features a 6-inch full HD display.
Yu Yureka Note promises to deliver great multimedia and gaming experience and is powered by MediaTek MT 6753T processor.
Also Read: Micromax Yu Yureka Note Yu6000 retailing for

Facebook may soon add a news section to its Android and iOS smartphone apps
Social media website Facebook may soon add a news section to its Android and iOS smartphone apps that may look like Facebook Paper, a standalone mobile app created only for iOS.
Facebook confirmed to Mashable tech website that it is testing the new, sectioned news feed, in addition to the current format, though it is unclear if the feature would ever get an official launch.
Read MoreFacebook to revamp its news feed with

Apple Inc said the US government had failed to show a continued need for its help accessing a locked iPhone in a New York drug case
Apple Inc said the US government had failed to show a continued need for its help accessing a locked iPhone in a New York drug case after a third party came forward with a solution to crack a different phone belonging to one of the shooters in December’s San Bernardino killings.
The technology company made the argument in a brief filed in federal court in the

A team of researchers has come out with a new software that represents a breakthrough in security for programs written in the popular web application framework Ruby on the Rails.
By exploiting some peculiarities of the popular Web programming framework Ruby on Rails, MIT researchers have developed a system that can quickly comb through tens of thousands of lines of application code to find security flaws.
In tests on 50 popular Web applications written using Ruby on Rails, the system found 23 pr

Some screenshots surfaced on Twitter on Friday, showing that a new layout of the mobile app that highlighted multiple news sections, with topics such as world and us, sports and food. (Reuters) Social media website Facebook may soon add a news section to its Android and iOS smartphone apps that may look like Facebook Paper — a standalone mobile app created only for iOS.
Facebook confirmed to Mashable tech website that it is testing the new, sectioned news feed, in addition to the current

Yureka Note is the first smartphone from the company to feature a 6-inch display and is priced at Rs 13,499 (Source: Yu Televentures)
Yu Televentures has officially announced its 6-inch phablet, Yureka Note in India. The smartphone is the first from the company to feature a 6-inch display and is priced at Rs 13,499.
Yu Yureka Note promises to deliver great multimedia and gaming experience. The Yureka Note features a 6-inch display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. The smartphone is power

Oracle Corp and Google failed to settle a long-running copyright lawsuit over the Android operating system ahead of a retrial
Oracle Corp and Alphabet’s Google unit failed to settle a long-running copyright lawsuit over the Android operating system ahead of a retrial scheduled for May, according to a court docket.
The case involves how much copyright protection should extend to the Java programming language, which Google used to design Android. Oracle is seeking billions in royalties for

Windows 10 Mobile Build 14322 brings new enhancements to the Action Center, Cortana supports Reminders and Microsoft’s Edge browser
Microsoft, which announced new features for its Windows 10 operating system during Build 2016 has now announced an Insider Build for its mobile OS too. The Windows 10 Mobile Insider Build 14322 is now available for Windows Insiders in the fast ring.
All the Lumia devices (except Lumia 635) which previously supported Windows 10 Mobile Insider builds are eligib

Canadian federal police have been able to eavesdrop on messages sent between BlackBerry smartphones since at least 2010 using an encryption key it obtained
Canadian federal police have been able to eavesdrop on messages sent between BlackBerry smartphones since at least 2010 using an encryption key it obtained, according to an online news magazine.
The revelation was made in court documents obtained by Vice and its sister publication Motherboard.
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“We are not aware of any active attacks against these vulnerabilities currently. But the only way to protect your Windows systems from potential attacks against these or other vulnerabilities in Apple QuickTime now is to uninstall it,” the company noted. (Reuters) Technology giant Apple will not roll out security updates for “QuickTime for Windows” after security software company Trend Micro Inc. reported that two new critical vulnerabilities are affecting the software.